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Friday, July 21, 2017

United States.Remote landslide creates new, deep
lake in national forest.JACKSON,
Wyo. — A remote landslide has created a deep lake in western Wyoming... Read more

Interesting Facts

Are we running out of fresh water? Global
water demand is projected to increase by 55 per cent between 2000 and 2050 ... Read more

A
huge iceberg weighing more than a trillion tonnes was recently released from
western Antarctica. The UK based team of scientists says that a section of approximately 5,800 square kilometers is already lose ... Read more

“'When corals die off, we die off'”.In
1998, the cruel heat of El Nino hit Seychelles hard. Sea surface temperatures
rose around the Indian Ocean, bleaching 90% of coral reefs in the archipelago.
Widespread flooding caused significant economic losses -- fishing and
agriculture accounting for more than half of the total figure according to the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) ... Read more

Climate change is going to make air
travel even more nightmarish, study says.Extreme
heat is a byproduct of climate change. Experts agree that as the Earth’s
temperature rises, these heatwaves will come more frequently, last longer, and
be felt more intensely. And this will have an indelible effect on how we use
airplanes for travel and commerce. A team of researchers at Columbia University
set out to chart exactly how rising temperatures will affect the takeoff and
landing performance of aircraft; their findings were published today in the
journal Climatic Change ... Read more

Large Oklahoma earthquake shifted
the earth by 3 centimeters, study says.The
earth shifted by about 3 centimeters during the most powerful earthquake in
recorded history in Oklahoma in September. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake near
Pawnee tore apart houses in the rural area near the
epicenter.... Read more

Extreme cyber-attack could dwarf
natural disaster costs. A
major global cyber-attack has the potential to trigger up to US$53 billion of
economic losses – greater than some of Australia’s worst natural disasters
combined ... Read more

3-D models help scientists gauge
flood impact. Today,
simplified 2-D flood models are the state of the art for predicting flood wave
propagation, or how floods spread across land. A team at IFC, led by UI
Professor George Constantinescu, is creating 3-D non-hydrostatic flood models
that can more accurately simulate flood wave propagation and account for the
interaction between the flood wave and large obstacles such as dams or
floodplain walls. These 3-D models also can be used to assess and improve the
predictive capabilities of the 2-D models that government agencies and
consulting companies use for predicting how floods will spread and the
associated risks and hazards ... Read more

What's new in Disaster
Risk Reduction?

Scientists want to use satellites
to predict landslides.Small
satellites have countless uses, including when it comes to monitoring the
planet for natural disasters. Now, scientists think they've made a breakthrough
on this front: They're using satellite data to map the Earth's movement. Their
end goal is to develop an early warning system for communities before
landslides, Engadget said ... Read more

Experimental Model Predicted
Tornado's Path Hours, Not Minutes, Before it Formed. The strategy, called Warn on Forecast, allows forecasters
to issue warnings before storms even form, based on high-resolution satellite
imagery, radar data and surface observations. This data is fed into a very
high-resolution weather model that is run every 15 minutes for a period of time
on storms of interest or for areas that could produce storms ... Read more

Green Finance: The Key to Unlocking
Sustainable Development.The
world has, for some time now, been keenly aware of the challenges that poor
environmental management poses to our common future – threatening human health,
peaceful societies, and long-term economic sustainability ... Read more

Principles for Flood and Coastal
Erosion.Office
for Nuclear Regulation and Environment Agency Joint ... Read more

Climate change will force today’s
kids to pay for costly carbon removal technologies, study says.The
longer humans continue to pour carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the closer
we draw to leaving the next generation with an unmanageable climate problem,
scientists say. A new study, just out Tuesday in the journal Earth System
Dynamics, suggests that merely reducing greenhouse gas emissions may no longer
be enough — and that special technology, aimed at removing carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere, may also be necessary to keep the Earth’s climate within safe
limits for future generations ... Read more

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